Alt.fan.pratchett was one of my first newsgroup obsessions.
Alt.music.Alternative was how I kickstarted my music writing career.
Damn it! You know what? I'm sick of this crap. I'm sick of being the guy who eats insects and gets the funny syphilis. As of this moment, it's over. I'm finished being everybody's butt monkey!
Xander ,'Lessons'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DavidS - Jul 05, 2013 4:07:36 pm PDT #28306 of 30001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
-t - Jul 05, 2013 4:21:28 pm PDT #28307 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
I used to publish fiction on rec.music.gdead, come to think of it. Good times. Didn't become a career, though.
Glycemic index of sweeteners chart [link] It is not clear to me at what point the numbers become acceptable, but, still, numbers.
Yacon is intriguing.
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2013 4:23:33 pm PDT #28308 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
The average of most of the guides I read was effectively "over 50 is high, under 40 is low" so that's my general dividing criteria. However "glycemic load" and just a plain lack of agreement about who tests the index and how means I feel I'm just avoiding the worst stuff.
erikaj - Jul 05, 2013 4:35:41 pm PDT #28309 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
I don't really remember(except a Tom Robbins group that was very much like this place, in spirit) but I spent a lot of time on Usenet.
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2013 4:40:07 pm PDT #28310 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
soc.culture.african.american was MOBF before TT had MOBF. One of the places I left my full name before I knew not to use it recreationally. Also lots of time in racsfw, rast.*, rac.*, and back in the day when reading porn stories not about TV characters was a thing I did with any of my time--alt.sex.ita'sgettingeducated.
Atropa - Jul 05, 2013 4:43:14 pm PDT #28311 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
alt.gothic and alt.gothic.fashion. I miss a.g.f a LOT.
-t - Jul 05, 2013 4:50:05 pm PDT #28312 of 30001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
However "glycemic load" and just a plain lack of agreement about who tests the index and how means I feel I'm just avoiding the worst stuff.
I was wondering about that. Glycemic index sounds so scientific and precise, but I don't know how you measure it or if there are actual standards.
Regardless of that, I hope it helps.
Ginger - Jul 05, 2013 4:53:41 pm PDT #28313 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5
B5 was the reason I first got online.
Kat - Jul 05, 2013 4:57:53 pm PDT #28314 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Mine was an Ani DiFranco listserv of sorts, than Utne Reader. Which is how I've known friends of sarameg and lisah for longer.
§ ita § - Jul 05, 2013 4:59:41 pm PDT #28315 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
alt.gothic and alt.gothic.fashion. I miss a.g.f a LOT
I was on those! Good times, good times, back when I didn't feel guilty only feeling goth and still trying to play in spaces.
I don't know how you measure it or if there are actual standards.
A fair amount of the tests I saw described (aka those that I remember) involved testing on people. So, you know, totally repeatable and applicable universally.